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View all search resultsToday in Central Java's Salatiga city, where coffee trees and bougainvilleas bloom, only a plaque at the entrance of the mayor's residence recognises the fleeting passage of a man who inspired writers from James Joyce to Jim Morrison.
But it took a true visionary, a determined one, to prophesize his own future. Legendary French poet Arthur Rimbaud did so at the age of 18 years old, and it led him to an odyssey to what was then the Dutch East Indies, specifically the city of Salatiga in Central Java.
A petition campaign last year backed by a host of celebrities as well as French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot called for Rimbaud to be re-buried alongside his lover and fellow poet Paul Verlaine at the monument in central Paris.
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